Like Being KilledDutton, 1998 - 339 sider Ilyana Meyerovich has never been very far from disaster and loss. A self-described "suicidal, strung-out, psychotic Jew under thirty," Ilyana retreats into her astonishing mind, prays to obscure Catholic saints, and seeks her equilibrium in six white lines laid out on the kitchen table of a squalid Lower East Side apartment. Masochism and nihilism form the twin poles of Ilyana's heroin-blurred existence, but this was not always so. When Susannah Lyons entered Ilyana's life via a "roommate-wanted ad," she quickly became the best thing in it. Susie's calm, centered presence and genuine affection tug Ilyana out of her depression, dark memories, and existential despair - but not far enough that Ilyana is willing or able to save Susie from her own innocence. Having had no precedent for genuine friendship, Ilyana can't help but destroy this one, betraying her sweet, naive friend in a way that nearly has fatal consequences for them both. |
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... stared at the seeping blood , I scrunched up my face and nodded slowly . She spoke gently . " You mean , like , they would hurt you ? " I stared at the air a few inches in front of me . Everything looked blurred and distorted and fluid ...
... stared at the seeping blood , I scrunched up my face and nodded slowly . She spoke gently . " You mean , like , they would hurt you ? " I stared at the air a few inches in front of me . Everything looked blurred and distorted and fluid ...
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... stared at my Catholic calendar , looking for saints born in August . Between saint days , time had gone awry , shrunk into pinholes smaller than my pupils . I sought out Saint Afra , on the fifth , patron of fallen women ; Saint Albert ...
... stared at my Catholic calendar , looking for saints born in August . Between saint days , time had gone awry , shrunk into pinholes smaller than my pupils . I sought out Saint Afra , on the fifth , patron of fallen women ; Saint Albert ...
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... stared at it , as it widened before me . I tried hard to focus my thoughts , to stop the infinitizing . My thoughts connected to each other seamlessly , one following the one immediately preceding it with psychotic logic , but nothing ...
... stared at it , as it widened before me . I tried hard to focus my thoughts , to stop the infinitizing . My thoughts connected to each other seamlessly , one following the one immediately preceding it with psychotic logic , but nothing ...
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acupuncture AnnaMaria apartment asked baby bagels bathroom Bensonhurst blood body breath Bummer Butchie called cigarette crazy dead door dope drugs everything eyes face feel felt fingers floor friends fucking Gerry Gerry's going gone gonna hair hand head heard heroin hurt Ilyana imagined inside kids kill kitchen knew laughed listen living room looked Lottie Lower East Side Margarita Maximillian Kolbe methadone Mister Softee mother moved never night nose okay once Paul Paul's peach plumber Primo Levi pulled Saint Dymphna screamed seemed shit shook skin sleep smell smiled smoke Smurf someone sorry sound speedballs stared Steller's sea cow stood stop Street sucked Susannah Susie Susie's talk tell there's thing thought toilet told turned voice waited walked watched woman words worry Yeah Yiddish